Ready Words

Credits

This website is built using open resources, including fonts, word lists, the data behind word order, the topic word banks, and the picture symbols shown beside words. Thank you to the researchers and projects that made these freely available.

Vocabulary

The words in the word bank come from three published word lists, each adding words the others don't.

The three lists were combined, expanded to include common inflected forms (plurals, verb tenses, comparatives), and tagged with each word's part of speech, then reviewed, edited and added to by hand for the students this app is built for. Per the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, this adapted word list is itself distributed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Word order

These norms decide which words appear first in the word bank, and which words each Word level (in Settings) includes.

Topic word banks

Because the frequency values come from CC BY-SA data, the Sports and Foods & Plants word banks are themselves distributed under CC BY-SA 4.0, like the core word list.

The scores that combine those two sources (data/frequency.json) are distributed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

Pronunciation data

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This work was supported in part by funding from the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency, the Office of Naval Research and the National
Science Foundation of the United States of America, and by member
companies of the Carnegie Mellon Sphinx Speech Consortium. We acknowledge
the contributions of many volunteers to the expansion and improvement of
this dictionary.

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Picture symbols

Ready Words is free and non-commercial. The pictures on this site have been adapted — resized, and some converted to black and white — and, per the license, the adapted pictures are shared under the same CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

Typography

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